21 April 2003
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Another death case of resident in social care institution
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One of the units of the Podgumer institution is housed in the old building of a 19 c. monastery. The village is located 2km outside of Sofia.
A 41-year-old man from the social care institution for men with developmental disabilities in the village of Podgumer, near Sofia, died after being strangled by another resident earlier this month, reported the Interior Ministry.
Information about the fatal incident was released on 16 April, two weeks after the victim died in hospital.
The autopsy revealed that the man had been strangled, and the subsequent death occured as a result of aspirated blood which caused aspiratory bronchopneumonia. The investigation carried out by the Second Police Department in Sofia established that the killing was carried out by a 26-year-old resident from the same institution, who is also mentally disabled.
The materials from the case have been sent to the district prosecutor's office.
This is the second known death case, in which a resident from a social care institution is killed by another resident. A month ago, a 32-year-old man died in a similar incident after being beaten to death in the social institution for mentally disabled adults in the village of Batoshevo, near Sevlievo.